Contents

Game modes

Arcade

The player must win 5 matches to win a tournament. Each match is played on a different surface:

Match

Name

Surface

1

Australian Challenge

Hard

2

French Court

Clay

3

US Super Tennis

Hard

4

The Old England Championship

Grass

5

Sega Grand Match

Carpet

Exhibition

This is a single match in which the options are customizable.

The match can be played as singles or doubles with up to 4 human players (2 for singles). The duration can be varied between one game and one set. Other options include the court that the match is played on and the skill of the opponent(s).

World Circuit

This is the main mode of the game. Users have to win matches and complete training exercises in order to progress and unlock new ones. The user enters with a rank of 300th, which improves as matches are won. These matches are unlocked by completing easier matches or traning exercises.

Training

The focus of the training exercises are to be fun, rather than realistic. Each exercise has three levels, with the difficulty increasing progressively. By completing the hardest difficulty with a certain amount of time left or points scored, an outfit is unlocked, which players can wear in all modes.

Players

Characters include several real world tennis players, with their respective strengths:

The Dreamcast and PC ports include eight extra players, all of them fictitious:

Player

Strength

Gilles Altman

Serve

Bruno Costa

Forehand

Rolf Euler

Volley

Masayuki Inoue

Speed

Shyam Singth

All-around

Davor Tesla

Wide Shots

Pieter Tinbergen

Serve and Volley

Raf Ventura

Strength

And finally there are two bosses in the game.

Player

Strength

Master

High Performer

King

Perfect Player

*Mark Philippoussis was removed from the PC version as he was already featured in a licensed tennis title for that platform.

Reception

Virtua Tennis received very positive reviews from with the UK version of the Official Dreamcast Magazine rating it at 9/10, as well as overwhelmingly positive reviews from users [1]. Players were pleased with the quick learning curve and the wide variety of training exercises available. The game became one of the few Sega All Stars.